Inclusivity and Diversity Lead

**Inclusivity and Diversity Lead**:
**Band 8a**:
**Main area**
- Inclusivity and Diversity
- **Grade**
- Band 8a
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1520**Site**
- Engineers House
- **Town**
- St Austell
- **Salary**
- £48,526 - £54,619 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
It is through our differences that we make a difference At the Cornwall Foundation Trust (CFT) we are dedicated to developing an extraordinary, inclusive, and diverse organisation, where everyone feels they belong. With this in mind, we have created a new Diversity and Inclusion Lead role.

The Diversity and Inclusion Lead will ensure that everything within the trust has diversity and inclusion at its heart. Leading in conceptualising and delivering Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives across the organisation. You will shape new and evolving programmes and lead the next iteration of the strategy. Working with key stakeholders both internally and externally, you will be responsible for embedding related working practices across the organisation to support an inclusive culture that genuinely embraces difference.

EDI is about leading change through improvement initiatives, engagement with and motivation of staff, ensuring people realise their potential and feel their contribution is valued. It’s about developing a culture and a system that puts workforce inclusion and great patient care at the centre of all that we do. Happy staff, happy patients, happy organisation.

**Main duties of the job**:
Lead and champion delivery of the Trust’s Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) agenda with a specific focus on improving the diversity of the Trust’s workforce, enhancing the experience of employees in protected groups, achieving fairness and addressing inequity in employment.

Take an overview of the wider inclusion agenda for the Trust, including oversight of, reporting on and connecting with other Trust workstreams dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for patients.

As the Trust expert for I&D, devise and provide advice, information and reports as required to support Trust activities requiring I&D input, including on the workforce profile, equality impact assessments, CQC responses, Annual Report, Quality Report, bids for services and other key Trust activities.

Deliver requirements relating to the Equality Delivery System (EDS2), the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES), Gender Pay Gap (GPG), I&D reporting (workforce) and Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), ensuring the Trust complies with its statutory duties and uses the data to make meaningful change.

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